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EDUCATION:

Loyola University (J.D., 2005)
University of Illinois (B.S., accountancy, 2000)

ADMISSIONS:

Illinois, 2005
U.S. District Court, N.D. of Illinois, 2006

FOLLOW:

Ryan P. Farrell

Ryan P. Farrell, a Certified Public Accountant and a resident of Crystal Lake for most of his life, knows the businesses and the people of McHenry County. His wide-ranging transactional experience encompasses banking, corporate business law, commercial real estate, taxation, estate planning, and employee benefits.

Farrell’s work with banks, corporate clients, real estate developers, businesses and individuals includes matters such as:

Speaker, “Redeveloping Distressed Properties: Clearing Out the Backlog in Order to Move Forward,” Illinois Municipal League 99th Annual Conference, Chicago, October 2012

Speaker, “Business Law for Women Business Owners,” Exemplar Financial Network, April 2011

Moderator, “Finance Forum,” co-sponsored by McHenry County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) Business Growth & Development Committee and the Illinois Small Business Development Center, March 2011

Farrell has conducted seminars on estate planning topics for various groups, including through Centegra Health Systems and Hearthstone Communities, as well as delivered harassment training for multiple private companies.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Northwest Herald Business Journal’s “10 Under 40” Award; Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Presidential Award of Excellence; named a Leading Lawyer in 2017 and an Emerging Lawyer in 2015 by Leading Lawyers, a division of Law Bulletin Publishing Company.

PRIOR EMPLOYMENT

Prior to joining Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle in 2006, Farrell was a senior employee benefits legal consultant at Ernst & Young, LLP in Chicago where he performed compliance and fiduciary reviews of qualified benefit plans. He also represented clients in their dealings with the Internal Revenue Service. Earlier in his career, Farrell worked with the same Big Four professional services firm as a senior auditor. In addition, Farrell also spent a year as a legal intern with General Growth Properties, which was then a Chicago-based publicly traded real estate investment trust.

CIVIC AND CHARITABLE

Farrell enthusiastically supports many community and business associations in Crystal Lake and McHenry County. He was elected in 2011 to the School District 47 Board of Education in Crystal Lake and is now serving in his second term. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and is a member of the 2010 class of Leadership Greater McHenry County, a group organized to foster and develop local community leaders. Farrell is past chair of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce and the recent past chair of the Crystal Lake Chamber of Commerce Ambassadors. Farrell also coaches several youth sports teams through Crystal Lake Raiders Football, Crystal Lake Baseball, and the Crystal Lake Central Tiger Feeder Basketball program.

PRO BONO

As the general corporate counsel of the Crystal Lake Food Pantry, Farrell helps the 501(c)(3) charitable organization offer temporary food assistance to qualified Crystal Lake residents. Volunteers from more than 20 local faith communities run the food pantry.